Category: Humour
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The return to work after Christmas is always a difficult one. January is not the best of months anyway, what with all the obligatory self-improvement…
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Back to work today No time to write anything More than this haiku
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Christmas is over But like Santa I’ll remain Jolly and quite fat
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On the ninth day of Christmas My true love gave to me A reality check, “Christmas is over Now take down the bloody tree!”
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As is customary on the first day of the year I intend to make some resolutions in order to stop being the rubbish version of…
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Ever since I started this blog, back in 2015, I’ve posted a sort of ‘review of the year’ on the 31st of December. It’s the…
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The Christmas presents have long been unwrapped And the tree has seen better days But still the Twixmas party goes onThough it all seems a…
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When my daughter asks For another chocolate I always say no Because like all good parents I’ve already scoffed the lot
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And so we enter that surreal period of the calendar, known to me (and possibly to some other people) as Twixmas, when Christmas is sort…
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While I always like to write a Christmas Day post, I don’t always bother on Boxing Day. There are only so many times you can…
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Merry Christmas! Sorry, my mistake. I forgot that Christmas had been cancelled this year. Being an established misanthrope I would have no doubt chosen to…
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And so another pointless Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films reaches it’s conclusion. Because it’s Christmas Eve and that’s how these things work. But what it…
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There are some movies that are so interwoven with my childhood that to say I love them would seem somehow inadequate. Obviously (as anyone who…
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Back in 2017, when I first started doing The James Proclaims Advent Calendar Of Christmas(ish) Films I included Rocky IV in the line-up. Because it…
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2014’s The Equalizer is a fairly ‘by-the-book’ action flic, that is elevated by having a decent cast, headed by Denzil Washington, and a director in…
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According to his Wikipedia entry, Mike Newell is best known for directing Four Weddings and Funeral, Donnie Brasco and Harry Potter and the Goblet of…
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is a pretty joyless affair. Set in a dystopian future, which is the not too distant 2027, it depicts a…
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The main selling point of 2013’s ‘Grudge Match’ is the notion of a match-up between Rocky and Raging Bull. But iconic though those two silver…
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1998’s ‘The Truman Show’ is something of a genre-defying movie, that also turned out to be ahead of its time. Had it been made more…
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2013 seemed to be the year for ‘Die Hard’ rip-offs that were set in the White House. Well, there were two of them anyway. The…
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There was something of a furore back in 2000 when Rene Zellweger was announced as the choice to take on the eponymous lead in the…
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It’s probably fair to say that 2004’s Mean Girls was not really aimed at me. It is, perhaps lazily, oft-referred to a ‘teen comedy’. I…
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2016’s Deadpool is technically Ryan Reynolds’ second big screen outing as the eponymous antihero. The less said about the first incarnation in 2009’s X-Men Origins:…
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1985’s Young Sherlock Holmes could, and possibly should, have been a beloved classic from my childhood. It ticks a lot of the boxes of the kind…
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Time for Door 11 of The Fourth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and in honour of the date we’re going to ‘turn it…
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1995’s Jumanji is an interesting concept (interesting enough to spawn spin offs and reboots in more recent times) but the movie itself feels a bit generic. Perhaps…
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1998’s The Waterboy is the kind of juvenile comedy you tend to associate with Adam Sandler. Which is maybe unfair to Adam Sandler because he has, in…
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As with most Wes Anderson films, I didn’t really like 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox when I first saw it, but I have come to appreciate it more…
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I was a pretty big fan of Kevin Smith movies in the nineties, but I haven’t really kept up to speed with much of his…
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Door 6 of The Fourth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and maybe it’s time to sort out that Christmas shopping. We could…
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Door 5 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and perhaps it’s time to take it easy. Maybe kick back and relax…
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